About This Statistic. This statistic shows the dollar sales of ice cream in the United States in 2017, by type. The sales of ice cream amounted to approximately 6.6 billion U.S. dollars in the 52 weeks ending May 27, 2017.
DEFINITION of 'Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)'. An ETF, or exchange traded fund, is a marketable security that tracks an index, a commodity, bonds, or a basket of assets like an index fund. Unlike mutual funds, an ETF trades like a common stock on a stock exchange. ETFs experience price changes throughout the day as they are bought and sold.
let s go over these attractive features for a background on what etfs are and how they work check out introduction to exchange traded funds the benefits of trading like a stock the easiest way to highlight the advantage of the etf trading like a stock is to compare it to the trading of a mutual fund mutual funds are priced once per day at the close of business everyone purchasing the fund that day gets the same price regardless of the time of day their purchase was made